Because the temperatures are cooling and the greyness, rain and snow are invading everyday life, Les Plages Électroniques are unveiling part of their 2023 programming to offer a ray of sunshine. Les Plages Électroniques runs from August 4th to 6th 2023 on the beach at the foot of the Palais des Festivals in Cannes with the first names of a line-up that promises to be colossal, including DJ Snake, Armin Van Buuren, Lomepal, Pedro Winter pres. Ed Banger XX, Mind Against, Sam Paganini, Ofenbach, The Blessed Madonna, Oden & Fatzo (live), Marina Trench and more. One of the most esteemed…
Author: Andy Lenthall
The UK live music industry got together last night for the inaugural LIVE Awards to celebrate outstanding talent and achievements across the sector, touring excepted. LIVE, the voice of the UK’s live music business, welcomed 450 representatives from every corner of the sector to highlight excellence throughout 2022 while looking forward to a brilliant year of concerts, festivals, and tours in 2023, although the only shows awarded were festivals. Decided by a panel of industry experts, the 14 awards reflected the talent and accomplishments of companies and individuals across the entirety of the UK live music scene, apart from tours…
Colne Town Council in association with Colne Blues Society are delighted to announce the return of The Great British Rhythm & Blues Festival for 2023. The town wide festival will return on the August Bank Holiday weekend in Colne, Lancashire. The festival returned after a 2 year break in 2022 with record breaking ticket sales, record breaking camping sales and an approximate attendance of 35,000 people, the festival was definitely a success! The event isn’t just a big event within Colne Town Council’s event schedule but also a major event in the UK Blues Festival calendar. Nathan Cutler, Colne Town…
More than 600,000 fans attended the 2022 edition of SOUNDSTORM, organised by MDLBEAST and the highlight attraction of ‘THE LOUDEST WEEK IN THE MIDDLE EAST’. This year’s event was 61% bigger than last year with revellers enjoying 260 hours of live music from 200 artists across seven stages under the Banban desert skies. Bruno Mars and David Guetta concluded the three-day festival with stunning Saturday shows. SOUNDSTORM 2022 saw the BIG BEAST, DOWN BEAST and DANCE BEAST settings joined by four UNDERGROUND stages, on a site with a total area of more than 5.5 million square metres. As well as…
House Music celebration, Retro in the Park has announced its expansion to a two day event offering more chances to get immersed in those unforgettable old school sounds and good time grooves at Towneley Park, the largest park in Burnley with 180 hectares of lush green rolling fields that will become a real party haven. Each stage at the festival will have its own look and feel, with cutting edge production, punchy sound and immersive lights all bring each one to life in a unique way. On both days, the most authentic old school brands in the scene will host…
Event décor and installation specialists, Visual Architects has been recommissioned for services at Kendal Calling 2023 taking place at Lowther Deer Park in the Lake District from 27th – 30th July, following a successful, full transformation of the festival in 2022. Last summer saw the Manchester-based company – which transforms events and venues through unique event décor, lighting, and immersive experiences – create original, signature looks and concepts for nine open air arenas and large-scale indoor tents across Kendal Calling’s 40,000-capacity site, including photo opportunity and signage landmarks, workshops and cinema entertainment. Kendal Calling and From The Fields’ Creative Producer,…
After its successful debut this year, SUPERBLOOM Festival returns to Munich on September 2th and 3th 2023. The first acts like Imagine Dragons, Martin Garrix, Ellie Goulding, Marteria, Badmómzjay, Zara Larsson, Ofenbach, Aurora and Lost Frequencies are confirmed. After the successful premiere of SUPERBLOOM 2022, next year’s festival will take place on 2th and 3th September 2023. The American indie rock band Imagine Dragons, EDM superstar Martin Garrix and British pop singer Ellie Goulding will be there in September, when the grounds of Munich’s Olympiapark will once again be transformed into a spectacular world of experiences. Already 2022, the SUPERBLOOM…
City Splash, the huge one day spectacular at Brockwell Park on Monday May 29th 2023 will see Reggae, Dancehall and Afrobeats heavyweights like Chronixx, Koffee, Shenseea, Skillibeng, Gyakie, Stylo G, Jah9, Ayra Starr, General Levy, Channel One, Iration Steppas, Ras Kwame, Pioneer b2b Supa D ft Coldsteps and many more all play across seven stages with a wealth of black-owned food, drinks and creative markets all making it an unmissable celebration of Caribbean and African culture. The influence of reggae and all things Caribbean and African on the UK’s sound system culture is undeniable. It has helped enrich the music…
ESNS (Eurosonic Noorderslag), the key exchange for emerging European music talent, adds another 52 artists to its programme, including Blanks (nl), Brimheim (dk), Caleb Kunle (ie) Daria Kolomiec (ua), Katie Gregson-Macleod (uk-sco), and Merol (nl), completing its line-up for ESNS 2023. Among these names are eleven Hit the North acts and five acts highlighted by NPO Radio 2 Soul & Jazz. ESNS will take place from 18 to 21 January 2023 in Groningen, the Netherlands. The festival has proven essential in breaking new European acts into live music scenes throughout Europe and beyond. With a line-up of 290 emerging European…
The Association of Event Venues (AEV) has declared the first meeting of the Multi Association Security Awareness group (MASA) a success. Fifteen senior representatives from event industry Associations attended the inaugural meeting on November 4, 2022, with Henry Havis, head of security, ExCeL London, taking the chair. The MASA group is envisaged to meet the need for an effective, unified channel for information from authoritative security sources to the whole event industry, and to provide the industry with consistent, knowledgeable representation in governmental, counter terror and security forums. MASA’s ambition is to represent the entire event industry, including suppliers, and…